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School can be a stressful time with the overwhelm of assignments and the anxiety of learning something new. It can affect young children trying to find focus in their home environment, undergrads trying to find peace in chaotic dorm life or graduate students looking to balance their education with busy lives. Regardless of who you are, a calm home environment can be crucial to academic success.
Whether you’re a student, parent or educator here are some tips to help turn your back-to-school prep into a way to carve out the vital time for self-care and support serenity during times of school stress. This post collects some simple steps to supercharge your study time by cultivating calm in your home.
It may seem counterintuitive to stop and relax but that gives your body the time to digest and integrate everything you’re learning. A calm space helps reduce any overwhelm that may creep up when taking tests or struggling with learning something complex. Plus, overall, it is good for your mental health to be able to have a safe place to relax.
Here are a few tips to create a space for yourself or a family member to thrive during the school year.
When you learn new things your mind needs time to integrate what you’re learning, properly store that information and concretize it into your memory. This can take different time for different people as we all learn differently and in different styles. Meditation gives the brain this vital time to rest and digest.
If your brain is constantly working, how can it rest to store what you’ve learned? Sometimes, people can shut down from overwhelm or worse push themselves to study to the point of exhaustion while not necessarily taking the time to understand what they’ve learned. Sometimes that stress can negatively affect your ability to remember what you’ve studied.
Meditation helps clear your mind and give it time when to take a break, rest and take care of itself. A study out of Taiwan found that students who took a mindfulness class had an easier time learning over the metrics they tested.
Another study found that meditation can help you cognitively facilitate memory and attention. Additionally, meditation helps with stress management which can often impact students under tight deadlines or nervousness at test time. Speaking of stress management…
Sometimes we need to have a separation of church and state with regard to schoolwork. Carving out a calm space whether it’s a place to meditate, a serene sleeping area, or even just a simple no-study zone can be vital. This can also help give you a much needed break from your work.
If you are surrounded by reminders of what you have to do you get no respite from your stress.Thinking about how much schoolwork you have doesn’t help get any of that work done. If you don’t take time to rest and relax your anxiety can keep you from adequately retaining information.
Obsessively thinking about school work will not only exhaust you, it keeps you from taking the time to let that information settle. Clear boundaries in your living space can help you disengage from schoolwork.
With people working from home you can end up working, studying, eating and watching TV all in one space: your bed, your kitchen, and there’s no place to escape day-to-day stress.
When you’re studying your aspirations for success can make you feel like studying needs to be your top priority and happening all the time. If you don’t create some space away from studying you can also undermine the time you need to fully process the information you’re learning.
One study found that taking breaks can help when learning new tasks. Creating boundaries in the home can help you establish a place for focus and a place to relax. This gives you a better chance of getting adequate rest, helps you avoid having your energy drained from having constant reminders of school everywhere.
These boundaries can help you take a break, adequately rest and help give your brain the much needed downtime to work with what you’ve been studying. Adequate rest can do so much for your brain power by giving your brain time to reorganize all the facts and figures it’s storing and essentially “defrag” the way we might do with our computer to ensure it runs more quickly.
We can often not realize how disorganization can waste precious time and cause a low level of ambient stress. We leave out unfinished projects, dirty dishes or school supplies. Maybe you have a stack of old mail or clean laundry just staring at you waiting for you to address it.
Our brains want order not chaos but we may not be aware of the impact clutter can cause. It actually creates a low level of psychological stress which can trigger us to seek coping and avoidance strategies making us more likely to procrastinate.
Research has found the visual stimuli of disorganization can reduce our ability to focus. Imagine an alarm that won’t turn off. At some point you might forget that it’s making noise or make peace with the annoyance but it is still making noise and it will impact your overall mood and ability to focus. Clutter does the same thing visually to your brain.
The visual distraction of clutter increases cognitive overload and can reduce our working memory. A 2011 study using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and other physiological measurements found clearing clutter increases your ability to focus and process information and your productivity.
By addressing this clutter you essentially turn off the noise of that alarm i.e. the distraction of that unfinished activity or visual mess. You give your brain release, plus the act of completing a task gives you a bit of dopamine and helps build up momentum for completing tasks.
Plus, the act of organization can often have you doing mindless, and yes tedious, tasks but this helps get you out of your head and gives your brain that downtime.
While you’re putting your laundry away, doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom or organizing that mess of papers it can help you give your mind time to continue integrating what you’ve learned making it more readily available when you need it for an exam.
It’s easy to rely on caffeine, sugary snacks or positive reinforcement to bribe yourself into getting schoolwork done. So often these offer a quick fix with an inevitable crash. Also, these can cause as much damage to your ability to focus as they help.
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Academic pursuits cause stress but with the right home environment you can help remedy that by taking adequate rest time. Pressure, perfectionism and performance anxiety can all come with busy school seasons.
The proper home environment can ensure that you give your brain time to rest, focus on replenishing the energy you need to perform at your best, and to focus on not just school but self care as well which is more likely to ensure success.
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